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Imagining America News
Announcing open position for Imagining America's Associate Director. Click here for details.
Just posted: summary from the 2009 conference plenary on Assessing the Practices of Public Scholarship! Click here.
Imagining America in Syracuse is the recipient of an Enitiative grant to train Say Yes to Education arts after-school workshop facilitators!
For more information, click here.
Chancellor Cantor authors magazine cover story on higher education's role in the "Remaking of America."
Read the article here.
Is your insititution an Imagining America consortium member? Click here to find out.
Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life
Imagining America is a national consortium of colleges and universities committed to public scholarship in the arts, humanities, and design. Public scholarship joins serious intellectual endeavor with a commitment to public practice and public consequence. It includes:
- Scholarly and creative work jointly planned and carried out by university and community partners;
- Intellectual work that produces a public good;
- Artistic, critical, and historical work that contributes to public debates;
- Efforts to expand the place of public scholarship in higher education itself, including the development of new programs and research on the successes of such efforts.
Public scholarship in the arts and humanities integrates all the missions of higher education: research, teaching, service, and public engagement. Current projects include the Tenure Team Initiative on Public Scholarship, the Curriculum Project, and Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE).
"Read Between the Signs" Photo by Amara Geffen
Imagining America in Syracuse
Visit the Syracuse Initiatives page (under Projects) for more information about Imagining America's work at its host campus and city.
Featured Program
Every two weeks, in this space, we feature a program at a member campus that exemplifies public scholarship in the arts, humanities and design.
Freedom Schools Program
More than 150 Tulsa children participated in the Children’s Defense Fund “Freedom Schools” Program this summer at Oklahoma State University-Tulsa. The program, a literacy-rich, five-week program, ran from June 19 through July 21.
The Freedom Schools program features a model curriculum for reading enrichment, youth leadership development, parent empowerment, civic engagement and social action. The program’s mission is to boost children’s motivation to read and generate positive attitudes toward learning, while connecting the needs of children and families to the resources of the community. (Click here for more information)